Tim Robbins

Recognized by the Academy as both an actor and a director, Tim Robbins stood out in Hollywood not only for his 6'5" height, but also for his high-caliber, character-driven work and his career-long com...
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Susan Sarandon taking time apart from boyfriend

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WENN.com
Mar 31, 2015

Susan Sarandon's ex-boyfriend is adamant the couple's split is only temporary as they are simply taking time apart to "refresh" their romance. The Hollywood actress was reported to have ended her relationship with Jonathan Bricklin, her partner in her Spin table tennis club business, in early March (15) after six years together.
Bricklin, who is more than 30 years her junior, has now confirmed the split, but insists the separation is not permanent.
He tells New York Post gossip column Page Six, "We're taking some time apart to really refresh... She's someone I love more than anyone I've ever been with and that won't change. We're going to figure out how life proceeds from here."
The 37-year-old businessman also reveals filming a fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, Connected, together put an extra strain on the relationship, adding, "We had a six-year relationship that's gone through ups and downs. The show did not break us up categorically. We weren't broken up (during filming) because we were still seeing each other. Since the piece (show) has come out, we are no longer seeing each other... It added challenges to a relationship. And because she's so public, there were lots of challenges having a relationship with her to begin with... What I felt was, the general public and maybe her family or friends maybe felt that I wasn't good enough for her."
Sarandon began dating Bricklin following the breakdown of her longterm relationship with fellow actor Tim Robbins, who she split from in 2009 after more than 20 years together.

Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon is single again after splitting from her boyfriend of five years, according to a U.S. report.
The Dead Man Walking star began dating her Spin table tennis club partner Jonathan Bricklin following the breakdown of her relationship with longtime love Tim Robbins in late 2009. However, Sarandon, 68, and Bricklin, 37, have now parted ways, reports New York Post gossip column Page Six.
The actress previously defended the 31-year age gap between the pair, telling talk show The View, "I don't go by age. I go by the soul of a person. I think that when you really love a person, the age thing, the gender, the colour, none of that matters. It's really beyond that."

The cast of prison drama The Shawshank Redemption reunited at a special event this week (beg17Nov14) to mark 20 years since the film's release. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins joined director Frank Darabont at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on Tuesday night (18Nov14) to celebrate the 1994 movie with a screening and question-and-answer session.
The event was hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation behind the Oscars, and the stars regaled the audience with anecdotes from their time on set.
Robbins revealed that while filming his character's escape scene, he was drenched and covered in real cow manure, while Darabont admitted he was asked to change his original ending because audiences felt short-changed when the picture concluded before the two main characters reunited on the outside.
He told the crowd, "The original script ended with Red (Freeman's character) on the bus, uncertain but hopeful about the future; that's the way the story (Stephen King's original short story) ended. But (studio executives told me), 'After two-plus hours of hell, you might owe them that reunion.'"
The movie failed to win any of the seven Academy Awards for which it was nominated, but became a classic through word-of-mouth and is now a regular fixture in lists of the best films of all time.

Country veteran Alan Jackson has been feted with the inaugural ASCAP Heritage Award in recognition of his decades of career success. The Good Thing hitmaker was the guest of honour at the 52nd annual ASCAP Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday night (03Nov14), when he was celebrated for becoming the most-performed country artist in the first 100 years of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' (ASCAP) existence.
Accepting the prestigious medal, a humbled Jackson said, "I don't even know what to say. I'm just an old country boy that's had a lot of blessings. Like I've said before, I'm just a singer of simple songs and came (to Nashville) to sing country songs, and songwriting means more to me than anything."
Sharing a few words of wisdom with his younger songwriting peers, he added, "Try to remember it's about the music. Try not to look at those charts."
Meanwhile, Craig Wiseman, the man behind hits like Blake Shelton's Hillbilly Bone and Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying, was presented with the second Heritage Award, acknowledging his success as the most-performed country songwriter to mark ASCAP's 100th anniversary.
Other winners on the night included Ashley Gorley, who accepted the title of Country Music Songwriter of the Year for helping to pen tracks for artists like Luke Bryan, Randy Houser and Scotty McCreery, and songwriting duo Ben Hayslip and Jimmy Robbins, who claimed the Country Music Song of the Year prize for writing Thomas Rhett's It Goes Like This.

Lady Gaga has joined the celebrities taking the Ice Bucket Challenge for Lou Gehrig's Disease research in typical dramatic fashion. The bikini-clad pop star has uploaded a video of herself pouring a silver serving dish full of ice-cold water over her head while seated in a chair online. She says nothing in the footage, but posted the message: "#IceBucketChallenge #ALS #SharePainShowCompassion I nominate Adele, Michael Rapino, Vincent Herbert, and Arthur Fogel #RichPeople."
Stars like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Jon Bon Jovi, Carrie Underwood, Justin Timberlake, Eddie Vedder and Gwen Stefani also joined the challenge over the weekend (16-17Aug14), posting videos online of their chilly water moments.
Vedder took the task on after Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready called on him and the rest of the group to join him in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
The Alive singer nominated pal Bruce Springsteen, One Direction star Niall Horan and actor Tim Robbins to follow his example.
The celebrities are being nominated by famous friends to take on the icy bucket blast or donate to charity. Most stars are doing both.
The campaign has been a big boost to charities connected to Lou Gehrig's Disease, aka ALS - more than $13 million (GBP7.6 million) has been raised since the end of May (14) and there have been over 1.2 million bucket challenge videos posted on Facebook.com.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker showed off her dancing and singing skills at the White House on Tuesday (20May14) as part of a new arts initiative spearheaded by Michelle Obama.
The Sex and the City star partnered with America's First Lady for the Turnaround Arts program, which brings the arts into some of the most underprivileged schools in the U.S. To showcase the work that has already been accomplished by the scheme, students from across America gathered in Washington, D.C. for a talent show, and were joined by Hollywood stars including Parker, Sir Elton John, actress Alfre Woodard, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Groban and Tim Robbins.
Woodard led a student brass band, while Parker went back to her roots and danced with a group of girls to You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile from Annie, which she starred in on Broadway in 1979. The Turnaround Arts initiative was launched in 2012, and stars including Kal Penn, Forest Whitaker, Kerry Washington, and Yo-Yo Ma have all participated.

Actor Tim Robbins is heading to China with his Los Angeles theatre group to perform William Shakespeare classic A Midsummer Night's Dream in Beijing and Shanghai. The Shawshank Redemption star will direct the Actors' Gang production at the National Center for the Performing Arts from 10 to 15 June (14) as part of Beijing's Shakespeare festival. He will then head to Shanghai for another series of shows from 19 to 21 June (14).
Robbins, who founded the Actors' Gang in the early 1980s and serves as the company's artistic director, and his team will become only the second American theatre group to perform at the Beijing venue since it opened in 2007.
The Actors' Gang will make the most of the return leg of the long-haul journey and make a stop in Italy to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Spoleto Festival, which runs from 28 June to 6 July (14).

"I went up the Pacific coast with my daughter when she was in eighth grade on a road trip to join Tim (Robbins) and the boys in Seattle (Washington). It was right at the height of her romance with the musical Rent - and that's the only music we had on the entire trip." Thelma & Louise star Susan Sarandon on her most memorable road trip.

High Fidelity co-stars Jack Black and Tim Robbins are re-teaming and heading to the small screen in a new dark comedy. Bosses at America's HBO network have given the go-ahead for The Brink, a TV series centred on three men who are forced to battle a geopolitical crisis and save the planet from World War III.
Robbins is set to play the U.S. Secretary of State and Black takes on the role of a lowly Foreign Service officer.
Actors Aasif Mandvi, Esai Morales and Eric Ladin are also set to star in the series, which will be director by Austin Powers filmmaker Jay Roach.
Robbins and Black previously appeared together in 2000 cult music film High Fidelity.

IFC
From the first time we saw the trailer for Will Ferrell's new IFC show The Spoils of Babylon, we knew that things were about to get weird. A spoof of the epic period dramas we've all come to know and love, the series stars Tobey Maguire, Kristin Wiig, and Haley Joel Osment. The first of six episodes premiered on January 9, and ICYMI here are a few more clips from the show. Be warned -- you are not prepared for the weirdness therein:
Tobey &amp; Kristen Get Weird:
Here's hoping we see lots of Tim Robbins, because seriously. How awesome does he look in this?
Epic Theme Song &amp; Opening Sequence
I'm not sure, but I feel like those trees and cars were kinda fake.
Squirrel Stew And Oil
If you didn't laugh over that "extrapolate" line, then this may not be the show for you. If you did laugh, then tune into the IFC for more of this unbelievably strange series. Call us cray, but that squirrel stew is reason enough to keep us interested.
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Co-founded with a group of fellow UCLA students The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles (served as artistic director until 1997)

Cast as the wide-eyed patsy of the Coen brothers' extravagant "The Hudsucker Proxy"

Played a crazed, simple-minded husband who takes everyone hostage in a car dealership in the comedy "Cadillac Man"

Acted opposite John Cusack in the energetic but pretentious "Tapeheads"

Earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Director for "Dead Man Walking"; starred Sarandon who won the Oscar for Best Actress

Portrayed a billionaire software manufacturer in the thriller "Antitrust"

Made TV-movie debut in CBS' "Quarterback Princess"

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Final film collaboration with Altman "Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear)"

First teaming with Altman, playing an amoral movie executive in "The Player"; featured an ensemble cast

Co-starred as an Iraq War veteran in Neil Burger's "The Lucky Ones" with Michael Pena and Rachel McAdams

Wrote and filmed an early version of 'Bob Roberts' for "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

Summary

Recognized by the Academy as both an actor and a director, Tim Robbins stood out in Hollywood not only for his 6'5" height, but also for his high-caliber, character-driven work and his career-long commitment to social issues alongside his equally liberal partner, Susan Sarandon. The New York stage actor had his Hollywood breakout in the atypical role of a dim jock in the classic baseball flick, "Bull Durham" (1988), but five years later, he had established himself as a force to be reckoned with as the writer-director of the satire, "Bob Roberts" (1992), and the Golden Globe-winning star of Robert Altman's sinister industry send-up, "The Player" (1992). While directors like Clint Eastwood continued to tap Robbins the actor for films like "Arlington Road" (1999), "Human Nature" (2002) and "Mystic River" (2003), Robbins the filmmaker went on to helm the acclaimed death penalty drama, "Dead Man Walking" (1995), and the Depression-era musical, "Cradle Will Rock" (1999), where he skillfully offered viewers new perspectives on political and social issues; not through dogma, but through engaging, relatable characters and stories. Though his longtime partnership with Sarandon ended in 2009, Robbins nonetheless remained dedicated to both his causes and his craft.

Born April 3, 1931; Ran the Gaslight nightclub and cafe; was a member of folk band The Highwaymen; directed by son in "Bob Roberts" (1992), "Dead Man Walking" (1995) and "Cradle Will Rock" (1999); Died on April 5, 2011 from prostate cancer

Met on the set of "Bull Durham" (1988); Sarandon also appeared in the Robbins-directed "Bob Roberts" (1992); She won an Oscar under his direction in "Dead Man Walking" (1995); Split in summer 2009

Education

Name

State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Stuyvesant High School

University of California, Los Angeles

Notes

Robbins and Sarandon created a controversy at the 1993 Academy Awards by chiding the government on its treatment of HIV-positive Haitian immigrants.

About the fallout from the 1993 Oscars: "What I found really interesting is that in all the times I've protested something in a Republican administration, I've never caught the hell that I've caught protesting against a Democratic administration. And I don't want to say it isn't a coincidence or anything, but I've been audited twice during the Clinton administration. You fill in the blanks." - Robbins quoted in Us Weekly, June 1997

On getting movies made: "There is always a test of wills, always a point where you have to face down the devil and say, 'Do I want to make this movie, because no one is making it easy?'

"It's never easy, no matter who you are. Even Martin Scorsese has trouble putting his films together. There is always someone who will find a way to humiliate you or make you work for less or question your motives or find some fault with your movie or say: 'There's no commerciality in this project.'

"You have to realise that doing what you love to do involves a certain amount of challenge and a lot of obstacles that will be placed in your path. That's good in a way, I suppose, because it means you have to examine yourself and the project and see whether you really want to go through with it. I try to keep a sense of humour about it, I really do." - Robbins quoted in The London Times, Nov. 13, 1997

"If an actor doesn't surprise me, I won't work with him again. They've got to show me something I could never think up myself. But what really amazed me was Tim's restraint as a director in 'Dead Man Walking.' A lot of guys are facile at showing off. But he hid. To do that, you have to have your ego in the right place. I can't do that. It was masterful." - director, Robert Altman quoted in Us Weekly, June 1997